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Thursday, June 15, 2006 4:22 PM

Why Technical Writing Sucks

Jesper has a great new article on why no technology or software solution is going to dig us completely out of our security problems. Read it for the great writing, authentic voice and cogent thoughts. If you are a person involved in what we call at
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Thursday, June 15, 2006 3:39 PM

>SlicedBread = Your Favorite TechNet Search as RSS Feed

Rejoice that the boffins at TechNet have released a new scoped TechNet search, that includes an RSS feed of your favorite search. How great is that? You scope your search to the products and technologies that are relevant to you, then save
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Thursday, June 15, 2006 1:36 PM

Bill Gates Announces 2 Year Transition

I am watching the webcast right now in which Bill Gates is announcing his transition to full time Gates Foundation work in 2 years. See the PressPass announcement for details. Hrm, wonder of the Foundation needs a lead technical writer?
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Monday, June 12, 2006 11:30 AM

Impact of Blogging

Joe Wilcox wrote yesterday on microsoftmonitor.com:  "I would contend that blogs are now Microsoft's major communication vehicle for reaching pretty much everybody. Microsoft partners and competitors--and the news media, for that matter--should
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Wednesday, June 07, 2006 12:55 PM

Home Office Security Checklist

Any day Microsoft publishes a checklist that will make the life of the IT Pro easier is a good day. Good day - please pass on the Home Office Security Checklist to your users, and encourage them to take the steps therein. It will reduce your headaches
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Wednesday, June 07, 2006 9:32 AM

Roll Your Own System Center Virtual Machine Manager Beta FAQ

I've just become the proud owner of the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Beta FAQ. What is Virtual Machine Manager? Why blog about the FAQ? It is a bootstrapping problem. I need to develop and publish a Frequently Asked Questions file for
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006 8:45 PM

Help Find the Cure for World's Top Diseases

A biochem researcher at the University of Washington here in Seattle has gone public with the inevitable - a new application of the SETI at home idea. WIRED news reports David Baker has so far signed up about 60K people to donate spare PC cycles
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006 11:01 AM

Scripting Guys on the .NET Show on WMI Scripting

Check out the excellent .NET show episode featuring the Scripting Guys on WMI scripting. The script center has a new article on WMI scripting in Vista, as well as great Windows PowerShell scripts. Here is a snip of the transcript to pique your interest:
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Friday, June 02, 2006 3:45 PM

Virtualization Webinars in June

How to Virtualize Infrastructure Workloads (Level 200) Thursday, June 08, 2006, 11:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) In this webcast we focus on virtualization technology and we offer an introduction to Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2.
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Friday, June 02, 2006 2:17 PM

Beyond OLED, Behold Nanocrystal Displays

Cool new nanocrystal display (will the the acronym be NCD?) technology is revealed in this Technology Review article. I love the OLED display on my portable music player.  Once you see these displays, you don't want to go back to LCD. However,
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Thursday, June 01, 2006 8:47 AM

Virtual Machine Manager Requires Active Directory

Alessandro's blog quotes Mike Neil (MN), Virtual Machine Technologies Product Unit Manager at Microsoft, RE the Active Directory requirement for Virtual Machine Manager Beta 1: VI: There are any plans to provide a VMM version not requiring Active Directory?
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Wednesday, May 31, 2006 10:33 AM

VMRC Keyboard Combos

While working on some draft content for Virtual Machine Manager, I have compiled the list below of Virtual Machine Remote Client (VMRC) keyboard controls. Is this the complete list? Is this the way you would want to see them displayed in content?
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Wednesday, May 31, 2006 8:43 AM

New Phishing Attacks

Educate your users and friends/family...Microsoft never sends patches (updates) in an e-mail. According to Techweb today, a couple of Trojans are posing as Microsoft patches/updates. The first line of the spoofed e-mail "Microsoft Cooporation"
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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 12:00 PM

Scalable Networking Pack Debuts at WinHec

Among the cool demos today at WinHec is the Scalable Networking Pack. Through the introduction of new architectural innovations like TCP Chimney Offload and NetDMA, the Scalable Networking initiative seeks to deliver support for the latest network acceleration
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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 9:53 AM

The Good Samaritan Would Blog

I am reading a new book written by some friends of mine: Anxious to Please: 7 Revolutionary Practices for the Chronically Nice. One of the things they talk about is taking the time to examine your core beliefs. This is an essential pre-req to
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